Young Magazine is a weekly manga that features serialized comics, like Initial D. Aimed at young males, the publication also features pin-up bikini photos.

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This week, the magazine features a questionable image of Tomomi Kasai, a former member of Japan's biggest girl group AKB48. In the photo, Kasai is topless, and a young boy covers her nipples with his hands. The image is actually the cover of Kasai's debut photo book, Tomo no Koto, Suki? (とものこと、好き? or "Do You Like Tomo?"), and it appears in Young Magazine as part of the photo book's PR push.

Late last week, the magazine's publisher, Kodansha, decided to delay the magazine for "inappropriate" content. In Japan, there have been outcries over the image, with some saying it's child pornography. As Anime News Network points out, under the Japanese legal definition, the picture could definitely be considered that.

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Japanese manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi, however, thought the image used religious painting iconography, namely the Virgin Mary and an angel, and that it was odd the photo was being dubbed child abuse in Japan.

The boy in the image looks Caucasian, and in Japanese visual culture, Caucasian children are often used to represent angels. However, the decision to use a non-Japanese child "others" the child in the photo, which could be why the photographer, Kasai, her manager, and the publisher thought the photo was okay. You have to wonder if such a photo would have been taken with a Japanese child.